CO-CREA RAICES-LAB Exhibition

Aug 13, 2025 | 10 Ecologías Digitales

Creative laboratories for goldsmithing and artistic casting as devices for the recovery of ancestral memory and knowledge in the indigenous community of San Lorenzo, Riosucio, Caldas.

The product of a qualitative and epistemological analysis of metallurgical techniques in pre-Columbian goldsmithing and technological developments in bronze casting processes—in both traditional and contemporary art—this exhibition showcases the results of investigative, documentary, artistic, and social appropriation of knowledge processes carried out in creative laboratories.

Between July and August 2024 and 2025, Indigenous youth and adults from the community of San Lorenzo (Riosucio, Caldas) participated in educational and creative activities in two creative labs developed by faculty and student researchers from the PRACMA group at the University of Caldas. The participants' artistic results demonstrated that these spaces, which focused on teaching techniques in goldsmithing, artistic casting, and 3D modeling and rendering, functioned as key pedagogical and technological devices for the recovery of ancestral memory and the generation of new creative ecosystems. These, in turn, strengthen and diversify the cultural and artistic expressions of the Indigenous community of San Lorenzo.

Thus, CO-CREA-RAÍCES-LAB is configured as an experimental audiovisual installation that integrates sculptures, photographs, and documentary videos, the result of collaborative activities between researchers and participants. This space for sculptural experimentation emerged from the ongoing dialogue between research and artistic creation. With the aim of promoting pedagogical and creative methodologies that articulate academic, community, ethnographic, and social actors, the exhibition seeks to make visible both the works and the creative processes developed in the indigenous community of San Lorenzo, Riosucio (Caldas).

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Members of the PRACMA research group
  • Andrés Uriel Pérez Vallejo. Investigador principal y coordinador del grupo de investigación PRACMA, profesor asociado Departamento de Artes Plásticas, Universidad de Caldas.
  • Luis Alfonso Ceballos Ceballos. Co-investigador, Profesor asociado Departamento de Artes Plásticas, Universidad de Caldas.
  • Jorge Humberto Espinosa. Co-investigador profesor Departamento de Artes Plásticas, Universidad de Caldas.
  • Giobany Smit Morales. Profesor Departamento de Artes Plásticas, Universidad de Caldas.
  • Ana María Yepes Pava. Estudiante Programa de Artes Plásticas, Universidad de Caldas.
  • Mario Alexander Sánchez. Estudiante Programa de Artes Plásticas, Universidad de Caldas.
  • Jony Alejandro Serna Aguirre. Estudiante Programa de Artes Plásticas, Universidad de Caldas.
  • Jhon Sebastián Tabares Ceballos. Estudiante Programa de Artes Plásticas, Universidad de Caldas.
  • Hugo Ladino Lasso. Estudiante Maestría en Artes, Universidad de Caldas.
Research and creative projects supported by the Vice-Rector's Office for Research and Postgraduate Studies at the University of Caldas

  • Laboratorio de creación en orfebrería  como dispositivo para la recuperación de los saberes ancestrales y el patrimonio cultural en las comunidades indígenas de Riosucio, Caldas (2024).

  • 10 Ecologías Digitales. Laboratorio de creación en modelado 3d y fundición artística como dispositivo pedagógico para la recuperación de los saberes ancestrales en los indígenas de San Lorenzo, Riosucio, Caldas (2025).

Short documentary production "JUA"
  • Dirección: Andrés Uriel Pérez Vallejo / Centro de investigación C-TRANSMEDIA
  • Director de fotografía / Operador de cámara: Daniel Gómez Restrepo / Andrés Cardona Gonzales.
  • Sonido directo: Andrés Cardona Gonzales / Daniel Gómez Restrepo.
  • Edición y montaje: Daniel Gómez Restrepo / Centro de investigación C-TRANSMEDIA.

 

Short documentary production "CO-CREA-RAICES-LAB"
  • Dirección: Andrés Uriel Pérez Vallejo / Laboratorio de Investigación MonitorLab.
  • Director de fotografía / Operador de cámara: Mario Alexander Sánchez Ocampo
  • Sonido directo: Mario Alexander Sánchez Ocampo.
  • Edición y montaje: Mario Alexander Sánchez Ocampo / Laboratorio de Investigación MonitorLab.

 

Participating group of indigenous youth and adults

Yinet Lorena Gañan / Andrés Felipe Melchor T / Belisario Bueno Bueno / Jesús Bueno Gañan / John Esteban Diaz / Janner Johao Aguirre G / Olga Lucia Gañan / Luna María Bueno Patiño / María Paulina Gañan / Manuela Lucia Delgado

University of Caldas research laboratories and incubators

Laboratorio de Investigación MonitorLab / Semillero de Investigación SIAM / Semillero en diseño y creación de seres fantásticos

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